From: Laurenz Albe <laurenz.albe@cybertec.at>
To: Scott Ribe <scott_ribe@elevated-dev.com>
To: pgsql-admin <pgsql-admin@lists.postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: copy to program with format binary
Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2021 16:33:18 +0200
Message-ID: <81ba38c29879972e9ccb3025162ef1dfa8582b19.camel@cybertec.at> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1BE15609-573B-4D14-906A-B9B360C7666D@elevated-dev.com>
References: <1BE15609-573B-4D14-906A-B9B360C7666D@elevated-dev.com>
On Mon, 2021-09-27 at 08:24 -0600, Scott Ribe wrote:
> Are the "to program" and binary format not compatible?
>
> copy msgs (msg) to program 'bzip2 > /...' with format binary
>
> gives me a syntax error at "format"
>
> Trying older-style syntax without "with" does the same thing.
The correct syntax is:
COPY msgs (msg) TO PROGRAM 'bzip2 > /...' WITH (FORMAT 'binary');
Yours,
Laurenz Albe
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